The Roman calendar was used by the Roman Kingdom and Roman Republic. Although the term is primarily used for Rome's pre-Julian calendars, it is often used inclusively of the Julian calendar establishe
A reproduction of the Fasti Antiates Maiores, a painted wall-calendar from the late Roman Republic
The remains of the Fasti Praenestini, containing the months of January, March, April, and December and a portion of February.
July through December sides of the twelve month Menologium Rusticum Colotianum
A fragment of the Fasti Praenestini for the month of April (Aprilis), showing its nundinal letters on the left side
The Ides of March is the day on the Roman calendar marked as the Idus, roughly the midpoint of a month, of Martius, corresponding to 15 March on the Gregorian calendar. It was marked by several major
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…1(Kal. Ian.) in 153 BC to allow Q. Fulvius Nobilior to attack Segeda in Spain during the Celtiberian Wars, before which they had occurred on March 15 (Eid. Mart.). There is reason to believe the inauguration date had been May 1 during the 3rd century BC until 222 BC and Livy mentions earlier inaugurations on…
The Death of Julius Caesar (1806) by Vincenzo Camuccini
Panel thought to depict the Mamuralia, from a mosaic of the months in which March is positioned at the beginning of the year (first half of the third century AD, from El Djem, Tunisia, in Roman Africa)
Reverse side of the Ides of March coin (a denarius) issued by Caesar's assassin Brutus in the autumn of 42 BC, with the abbreviation EID MAR (Eidibus Martiis – "on the Ides of March") under a "cap of freedom" between two daggers